May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The Old Man and the Sea. 8vo, publisher's sliver-lettered blue cloth, spine lightly tanned; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel tanned, 1-inch closed tear at head of spine panel; contents clean, slipcased. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952

Additional Details

first edition, first issue with 'A' and publisher's seal on verso of title-page, and no mention of the Pulitzer Prize that he was awarded the following year. Hanneman A24a.